Photography By: Richard Zulu Shabazz I heard the songs, I saw the live performances and the videos and now I was staring right at him down the barrel of my Ds80 on stage with the truth. It was the perfect event for any real hiphop head to end the summer. I was at the Masquerade for the Red Bull EmSee freestyle competition and the headliner of the night was none other than Talib Kweli. I am from Chicago and I will openly admit that I listened to Kanye West so I was in much need of a real lyricist who didn’t just talk the talk...
Facebook's HipHop: Impact on the Enterprise May Go Deep Into the Code 
The New York Times
The New York Times
The influence that Facebook is having on the enterprise now goes beyond making the corporate world a more Web-oriented place - its impact now goes deep into the code. Facebook announced this week that it has rewritten...
PHP Creator Asks, Is Facebook's HipHop Just a 'Nifty Trick'?
The New York Times
The New York Times
Earlier this week, we pinged PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf about the implications of HipHop, the new PHP runtime that Facebook just open-sourced. Using ReadWriteWeb as an example, he goes into great detail about how...
Deep thoughts: DJ Krush at Neumos Sunday, Jan. 31
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
Tokyo's DJ Krush has been working on a combination woodsy/urban samurai groove for almost 20 years now. He's Japan's most famous hiphop star, and plays Sunday, Jan. 31 with SunTzu Sound and . On one hand, listening to...
Attention fun-loving, romance-seeking, R&B/hiphop-enjoying grown folks: take your valentine to Skate King in Bellevue
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
Party time , home of the graveyard soda (all sodas combined), is open the Saturday before Valentine's Day for a grown folks-only skatestravaganza. The lobby smells like feet but the rink should be smooth, lights magical,...
Late notice: Champagne Champagne, Wild Orchid Children, and They Live! at the High Dive Friday, Jan. 29
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
Facebook re-write takes PHP to an enterprise past
The Register
The Register
Facebook's re-written PHP to transform the dynamic language for...
Late notice: songs from Miles Davis' electric period performed tonight (Friday, Feb. 5) at the Electric Tea Garden in Cap Hill
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
I'd be remiss in not passing this along. Not only have I been wanting to check out Capitol Hill's since it rechristened itself with the name - like this , I always called the space "the Artificial...
Rapaputy Band & Friends will hand out free money Saturday, February 20th in Whiteland, IN
The Examiner
The Examiner
The Liberal Democrats' arts policy revealed
The Guardian
The Guardian
Funding to be retained at current levels; BBC Trust to be abolished; national arts organisations to become truly national...
